Since 2009, Glenwood Arts has provided an open-source platform of creative community, supporting emerging artists and fostering collaboration between groups across disciplines.

EARTH DAY, April 22nd, 2015Re-PLANTING: A Conversation through Art, Photography, Film, Spoken Word and More...Hempstead Harbor and the Surrounding Communities

re-PLANTING is a collaborative community event featuring art, photography, film, music, dialogue and more. All submissions of art and participation are welcome. Sponsored by Glenwood Arts in collaboration with Long Island University – C.W. Post.re-PLANTING event is free event being held on Earth Day, April 22nd, 6:30 P.M. at Glenwood Community Church, 71 Grove St., Glenwood Landing. Donations online and at the door are welcome.re-PLANTING is inspired by the dismantling of the iconic Glenwood Landing Power plant, an historic and architecturally unique landmark that for nearly a century provided jobs and electrical power to the area. re-PLANTING will document and memorialize the role of the plant in the community and start a dialogue about what happens in its absence.The modern environmental movement was born with the first EARTH DAY on April 22, 1970. Today, 45 years later, the official EARTH DAY website still challenges communities to, "Discover energy you didn't even know you had. Feel it rumble through the grassroots under your feet and the technology at your fingertips. Channel it into building a clean, healthy, diverse world for generations to come."In this spirit we hope the evening at Glenwood Arts will germinate new ideas and fertilize existing ones about how to nurture creative and environmentally sound growth in Hempstead Harbor and the surrounding communitiesIf you would like to submit drawings, photographs, collages, paintings or sculpture, or perform music, show a video, tell a story about the power plant or Glenwood Landing, recite a poem or do an art performance, please contact: Greg Sturge, Glenwood Arts: greg@glenwood-arts.org or Joan Harrison, LIU Post: joan.harrison@liu.edu Submissions art, photography or other archival material are due by Saturday 4/18. Film footage by April 10th. Glenwood Arts is an Opaloo community-supported open learning lab, fostering interaction and inter-connectivity among groups, local artists, and ideas since 2009. Learn more at www.opaloo.org Food sponsors and volunteers are also needed. Please contact Greg Sturge.

A visiting artist from South Korea and MFA student at LIU Post, Heon Woo Nam, "HuNoo" describes the inspiration behind his work "Potato Eye" which appeared at Glenwood Arts, Potatoville: Post-Potatoism exhibition this winter; and describes his experience living and studying in the U.S. ﻿Click here for interview﻿

Glenwood Arts Interview: Polly WeigandExecutive Director, Long Island Native Plant InitiativePolly Weigand founded the Long Island Native Plant Initiative, LINPI, in 2011, in an effort to preserve the original strains of grasses and plants that grew on Long Island before settlers introduced non-native species. Polly also works as a soil technician for the Suffolk County Soil and Water Conservation District. LINPI regularly holds plant sales and teaches the public about native plants at their greenhouse on the campus of Suffolk County Community College on the weekends.

YouTube video: Interview of Polly Weigard

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Students and members of the community are invited to to drop off used objects and discards such as teabags, used plastic lighters, laundry lint, dead light bulbs, eggshells, used markers and other “non-conventional materials” to be used in works of art, architecture and furniture by PAK-CAT, local schools, LIU, local artists and members of the community.

Potatoville at Glenwood ArtsPotatoville featured potato-themed art exhibition, Post-Potatoism, and performance by the band Potatotron playing original potato-related music-- all led by potato empresario, artist and professor, Jeffrey Allen Price, featured in the documentary short film below.